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I recently suspended my efforts at prepping for the NYC Bev francis Eastern states and then the Nationals. THere were a variety of reasons most of them emotional, personal, professional, etc... But ultimately the real reason was that I was starting to alienate and frighten my wife and cause my 8 month old baby boy to be afraid of his father. Some of you might say I should have better self control, others might straight up sympathize with my position but i know that if anywhere, the members of this board would be more understanding of the change in priorities and circumstances that led me to this decision. With my career, grad school, contest prep, and raising my first born, for 8 weeks i would come home from the gym and not even have the energy to pick up or play with my son for even one minute. And then my wife and I would argue so often (usually my fault, anyone who's seriously prepped for a show knows how this can go) that my baby boy started to turn away from me and that's what ultimately led me to stop prepping. I'll throw up a shot in the next couple of day of me 2 weeks out of the New York show to show that I was on target if not ahead of the game physically and my conditioning had nothing to do with my decision. YOu see, the thing about trophies is they don't do this for you when you come home at night....
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